Improvement in trace-buckles



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MELANGTHON E. ZELLER, OF IVESDALE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRACE-BUCKLES..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,667, dated December 8, 1874; application iiled A'ugust 31, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, MELANCTEON E. ZEL- LER, of Ivesdale, in the county of Champaign and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Trace-Buckles, of which the followingu is a full, clear, and eX- act description, reference being had to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a plan View of the top, and Fig. 2 a similar View of the bottom, of my improved buckle. Fig. 3 is a side View, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal section, of the same.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are designated by like letters.

This invention relates toa certain improvement in trace-buckles; and it consists in the combination, with an S-shaped frame supplied with alternate cross-bars, of a tongued or retaining plate, with lateral projections or lugs bearing against the forward end, and its free end resting upon one of the bars of said frame, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawing, A refers to an S- shaped frame, with alternate upper and lower cross pieces or bars a al a2, cast in one piece therewith, and disposed one, a, above the lower arch, another, al, beneath the upper or inverted arch of the frame, and the third one, a2, at the forward end of the latter. B is a plate with a tongue or nib, b, to enter any one of the perforations of the trace C, and curved downwardly, as shown in Fig. 4, so as to bring its lateral projections or lugs b b firmly against the upwardlycurved portions of the forward end of the frameA, as seen in Fig. 3, while the rear or bhamfered end of said plate will rest on the bar al of the frame, and is thus caused to span the lower arch of the latter, and clamp or wedge the trace. between it and the bar a, assisting' the tongue b to retain the trace firmly in place in the buckle. The tongued plate B slides or passes between the straps when adjusted to and from its place in the frame A.

Through this construction a very simple, consequently cheap and substantial or durable, buckle is produced, the entire buckle being composed of only two parts, which may be made of cast malleable iron.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent, is-

The combination, with the S-shaped frame A a al, of the retaining-plate B b, with its lateral lugs or projections b b bearing against the forward end or leg of the said frame, and its free end resting upon one of the erossbars of the same, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof` I have hereunto signed my name in presence of two subscribing'witnesses.

MELANCTHONl E. ZELLER.

Witnesses:

J. W. ANDERSON, A. L. MENDENHALL. 

